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MT. RAINIER, FROM SEATTLE 

Lake Washington in the foreground. Recent government surveys have established this mountain as the tallest in the United States proper. 

Height, 14,526 feet. 










SNOQUALMIE FALLS 

Two hundred and sixty-eight feet high. Twenty-eight miles east from Seattle. Reached by Northern Pacific branch line. 








THE GOLD SEEKER'S REWARD 

Vault in Seaffle Assay Office, showing gold bricks valued at $2,500,000. The office was established July 15, 1898, and its receipts up to 
July 1, 1906, had been $118,000,000, represented chiefly in shipments from Alaska. Visitors welcome. 















































































































PIONEER PLACE 


Heart of tke retail business district, showing quarters of Seaftle Chamber of Commerce. Historic Indian totem pole in triangle. 


































MADRONA PARK, LAKE WASHINGTON 

Fifteen minutes ride from Pioneer Place. Take James Street cable line. Boating, bathing, fishing, etc. 






TWO MONSTER ORIENTAL LINERS 

Steamships Minnesota and Dakota, largest freight carriers afloat, in their docks at Seaffle. Length of each over all, 630 feet. These vessels 
ply regularly between Seaflle and the Orient. They make a specialty of tourist travel. Their equipment 
is equal to that of the most modern trans-Atlantic liners. 




















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PORT BLAKELEY 

Here are located the largest lumber mills in the world. Capacity 560,000 feet a day. Ships from all parts of the world load cargoes here. 
Steamers between Seattle and the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 15 miles distant, pass in sight of these mills. 





































ALASKA AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK and LOWMAN BUILDINGS 

Three modern, fireproof “skyscrapers' erected within the past eighteen months. The total value of building permits issued last year was $6,684,784. 





























































BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA—A SEATTLE PRODUCT 

Built by Moran Brothers Company. Cost, $3,733,000. Speed 19 knots. Keel laid, 1902; launched, 1904; completed, 1906. 










A RESIDENCE STREET ON THE FIRST HILL 


Seaftle posesses some of the finest homes of any city in the west. There are four distinct residence sections—= Queen Anne, the First Hill, 
the Second Hill, and Madrona Heights, all of which command magnificent views of lakes, Sound and mountains. 

Forty miles of asphalt pavement have been laid during the past two years. 












MOONLIGHT ON PUGET SOUND 

“One never gets the same impression twice of Puget Sound scenery. It affords a constantly changing panorama of sea, sky and 

mountains. —Theodore Roosevelt. 













University of Washington_Site of tlie Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909. Conceded to be tbe most picturesque and comm i 

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)est draft vessels afloat. Will shortly be connected witb Lake Washington by a sbip canal now being constructed by private enterprise. 



i ( site of any occupied by a seat of learning in America. 
I nnectmg tbis body of water witb Puget Sound. 


Twenty minutes from heart of city by street car, boat and train. Overlooks 




























A FAMILIAR LANDMARK 


Picturesque spot on Seattle boulevard system, laid out by Olmstead Brothers, and constructed at a cost of more than $500,000. This boul¬ 
evard affords some of the grandest and most varied scenery on the continent. 





A PUGET SOUND YACHT 

Probably no region in tbe world is better adapted to yachting and all other forms of aquatic sports 
Puget Sound. Violent storms are unknown and favorable winds can be 

depended upon tbe year round. 


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CATHEDRAL OF THE SACRED HEART 

Erected at a cost of $250,000, exclusive of decorative fittings, organ and altars. This structure is one of 

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A TYPICAL SIWASH INDIAN CAMP 


Hop growers depend in a large measure upon the Puget Sound Indians to harvest their crops and at certain seasons of the year the latter 
migrate hy the thousands to these fields from their abodes along the shores of Puget Sound. 









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STEAMSHIP OHIO PREPARING TO SAIL 


The accompanying scene is typical of that which is enacted every day during the spring exodus of gold seekers bound for Alaska. Seafile 
is the gateway to the gold fields of the north. Her wholesale merchants supply northern dealers 
with 75 per cent of the goods consumed in that territory. 






SCENE IN RAVENNA (NATURAL) PARK, SEATTLE 


Sulphur springs, virgin forest, big trees, and waterfalls. Take University car. 





SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 

Completed in 1906 at a cost of $300,000, of which Andrew Carnagie subscribed $200,000 towards the building and $20,000 for its 
furnishings. The library contains 75,000 volumes, in addition to all current periodicals, and is maintained 

absolutely free for the residents of the city. 










































LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 


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